As adults we burden ourselves with responsibilities, obligations, and expectations, that we can sometimes feel shackled to our lives. Playing is the opposite -- free, light, unbounded.
Baby It's You! isn't the show that critics wanted it to be. Reviewers compared it to the beloved Jersey Boys. It's a natural comparison to make, but Baby suffers as a result of these lofty expectations.
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It's hard to describe the experience of this walking tour/scavenger hunt without giving away vital information that could spoil the adventure for the next person. But this three-hour tour is worth the leap of faith.
Carey Mulligan has received deserved praise for her performance in Through a Glass Darkly at New York Theatre Workshop. Mulligan truly shows what a star she has become.
There is a growing and unique role museums can play in reinventing K-12 education. And children's museums are well suited to lead the way.
Summer should be a time for roaming, discovering and running outside -- but unfortunately, for all too many kids, more free time means more screen time and more structured activities.
There are the two views of early education that have been pitted against each other for decades: pouring knowledge into children to build bigger brains or putting them out side and giving them opportunities to play.
We're creating a generation of children who can follow rules but who are at a complete loss when it comes to doing anything that requires drawing from their own imaginations.
If we want kids to experience a sense of wonder and discover new information, generate novel ideas, and derive their own conclusions after a discussion, then the current educational system is a failure.
So packed is this tragicomedy of ideas that I am not yet over its delirious seriousness: What can you expect when everyone on stage talks at once, rapid fire, idea obsessed, passionate?
The false belief that all value comes from output -- "I produce therefore I am" -- is a lousy measuring stick for self-worth but very effective at squelching your life.
It's hard to keep up with Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at first. But for all the confusion and uncertainty that define the early parts of the play, Tiger has a clear point (and point of view) to make.
In The Other Place, an MCC Theater production that opened this week at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, the mystery of what happened ten years earlier is superseded by more immediate questions.
Turning your back on play makes about as much sense as swearing off laughing, and it has about the same effect: locking in the overseriousness that reinforces that you are too busy to let your hair down.
Meditation puts on the light in an otherwise dark room. It enables us to see through illusions and relax into our true nature.
Frances McDormand injects the right mix of dignity and desperation into the lead role of Margie in David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People.
As I started playing in bands and writing songs, I developed skills at various jams and sessions that had me stumbling onward and upward as a player.
Being out of control in the service of learning, fun and growth, oddly enough, places you in control of your life, because you are self-determining its content.
We tend to think of initiative as something that only applies to careers, but it's one of the essential ingredients in life activation.
Modern technology reveals that play lights up the brain in such desired areas as clarity and memory. Common sense tells us that if we've been encouraged to play as a child, beginner's mind comes more naturally as an adult.
The real drama comes from the murky relationships between these men and what they're hiding. Is Caleb home honorably from the war or did he desert? Why won't he go to the local hospital?
Freud's Last Session and The Whipping Man depict conversations and situations that compel the audience to envision and reconsider historical events in another, more engaging light.
Here's a roundup of my theater-going for the past week covering all the new shows. I see The Whipping Man this weekend but had to miss AR Gurney's lat...
Almost every species of animal engages in some form of play. Play helps all species, animal and human alike, to learn the adaptive behaviors that incr...
